Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- There are stories we tell because they are entertaining, and there are stories we tell because forgetting them carries a cost. The Man Died belongs firmly to the latter category.

Directed by Awam Amkpa and produced by Femi Odugbemi for Zuri24 Media, the 2024 Nigerian historical drama premiered on Prime Video on 15 August 2026.

The film stars Wale Ojo as Wole Soyinka, alongside Sam Dede, Norbert Young, Segilola Ogidan, Christinah Oshunniyi, Abraham Amkpa, Tmilolu Fosudo, Similoluwa Hassan and Ropo Ewenla.

Inspired by Soyinka's prison memoir, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, the film revisits one of the defining periods of the writer's life: his arrest and imprisonment during the Nigerian Civil War.

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